Canned Pears - Canned Strawberries

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Canned Pears - Canned Strawberries

Canned Pears

Prepare and can precisely like peaches in preceding recipe, except, that they require longer cooking. When done they are easily pierced with a silver fork.

Canned Pie Plant

Cut the pie plant in pieces, two inches long, put over a slow fire-with its weight in sugar; when sugar is dissolved let it boil slowly until clear, but do not let it cook lone; enough to become dark col-ored. Put up in air-tight cans.

Canned Pine-Apple

Peel and slice, make syrup in proportion of two and a half pounds best white granulated sugar to nearly three pints of water; boil five minutes; skim or strain; add fruit and let it boil; have cans hot; fill and seal up as soon as possible.

Canned Plums

Wash and put whole into a syrup made in the proportion of a pint of water and a pound of sugar to every two pounds of fruit; boil for eight minutes, can, and seal immediately. If pricked with a fork before placing in syrup, they will be less liable to burst. Cherries are canned in the same way.

Raspberries with Currant Juice. Ten pounds of red or black raspberries, twelve pounds of granulated sugar, one quart currant juice. Make syrup of the sugar and juice; when boiling add the fruit, and continue for ten minutes Put in glass cans and fasten immediately.

Canned Strawberries

Fill glass jars with fresh whole strawberries, sprinkled with sugar in the proportion of half pound sugar to a pound of berries, lay covers on lightly, stand them in a wash boiler filled with water to within an inch of tops of cans (the water must not be more than milk-warm when the cans are placed in it). When it has boiled for fifteen minutes, draw to back of stove, let steam pass off, roll the hand in a towel, lift out cans, and place on a table. If the berries are well covered with their own juice, take a table-spoon and fill up the first can to the very top of the rim from the second, wipe the neck, rub dry, and screw the top down firmly, observing carefully the general directions for canning berries. Fill another from the second can, and so on until all are finished. Great care must be taken to keep the berries whole and round; as the cans cool invert them occasionally, to prevent the fruit from forming in a mass at one end.

Canned Strawberries

For every quart of fresh strawberries, take one coffee-cup of white sugar; add a table-spoon or two of water to the fruit if there is no juice in the bottom, to prevent burning before the heat brings out the juice. As soon as the fruit boils, add the sugar, and stir gently for a few minutes until it boils up again, and can immediately. It is better not to cook any more fruit than can be put into one glass fruit-jar. Usually a few spoonfuls of the syrup will be left with which to begin the next can. Strawberries are considered difficult to keep, but there need be no trouble if the fruit is fresh and the can is closed air-tight in glass, and kept as directed in general directions for canning fruits. - Mrs. H. S. Huntington, Galesburg, Ill.